Kingfishers Bounce Back to Beat The Buds

Monmouth Town 4 Aberbargoed Buds 1

Monmouth Town’s Kingfishers bounced back from their first defeat of the season despite not being at their best and going behind for only the second time this season as the Buds provided an early scare.  Indeed in the opening exchanges the Buds managed by former Cardiff City and Abergavenny Thursday’s legend John Lewis looked the brighter team as the Kingfishers struggled to find their passing range.  Bowen was passed fit to play for the first time and Alderdice dropped back leaving Hughes on the bench. It looked like Town were coming back to full strength but they were rocked by a simple move as a cross was swept in from the left, and Ford played his man onside to allow a stopping header to be planted beyond Pass. Ford departed the action soon after still feeling the strain of his injury sustained at Port Talbot. Kennedy joining the fray as his replacement but the reshuffled back four struggled to clear their lines in the strong wind.   

 A couple of promising moves later however and Town were level as Elliot Ford capitalised on the disarray in the Buds defence to smash home a loose ball. Town then survived a scare as the dangerous left winger clipped the cross bar and a few free kicks tested Pass in the home goal.

 With the wind in the second half Town always looked the more likely succeed and keeping the ball on the floor grew in stature with Davies marauding again, MacDonald finding hios feet and Smith doing the hard yards allowing Guy to look composed in possession. On 75 minutes the Kingfishers were in front Bowen crashing home a great finish to seal a good comeback. Laurie came on for Smith and looked comfortable, neat and tidy showing some others what efficiency means with a football.  Lewis also came on for a solid came and as Macdonald started to dominate in the growing spaces hit a sublime finish on 80 minutes and took his league tally to 26 in 14 games as the game neared its close. Match Sponsors Tynan and Ricketts Plastering Man of the match award went inexplicably to Andrew Smith but Team co boss Robin Pick was keen to talk up a better team performance “We had to get back to winning ways and we did today. It wasn’t a great performance but we’ve still beaten a  team we’ve only ever beaten once before very comfortably“

 Town are at home again next week - Saturday 3rd December - taking on third placed Garden Village from Swansea looking to emulate the 5 – 0 defeat Town handed to the visitors on their first game back in August. (ko @2pm)